Don't Hold Your Breath for Geometry Wars 3

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This is one franchise Activision isn't looking to "annualize."

By Daemon Hatfield

Xbox Live Arcade launch title Geometry Wars is still considered to be one of the best downloadable experiences available on the service. Developer Bizarre Creations followed it up with a sequel in 2008 that added multiplayer and very friendly leaderboard features. Bizarre is owned by Activision, a publisher notorious for cranking out sequels. It would stand to reason, then, that we would see a Geometry Wars 3 someday. But it doesn't sound like we'll be getting that third game anytime soon.

"Right now, we don't have any plans for Geometry Wars 3," Bizarre's Gareth Wilson tells Kotaku. "That doesn't mean that at some point [Geometry Wars creator] Stephen [Cakebread] won't have a genius moment and will start working on it, but right now Stephen is working on all sorts of other projects."

As much as we love Geometry Wars, maybe we should be thankful that Activision isn't "annualizing" it into the ground.